CJ Hopkins
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CJ Hopkins | |
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| Born | Miami, Florida |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright, author |
CJ Hopkins is an American playwright, novelist, and political satirist.
Career
Early works
Hopkins' early plays and experimental theatre texts were first produced in New York City during the 1990s at Off-Off-Broadway theatres including HERE Arts Center, the Ohio Theatre, Theatre for the New City, The Present Company Theatorium[1] and The New York International Fringe Festival. He was a 1994 Drama League of New York Developing Artist Fellow and a 1995 Resident Artist/Jerome Foundation Fellow at Mabou Mines/Suite.[2]
Horse Country
His 1992 play, Horse Country, had its UK premiere at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It won a Scotsman Fringe First for New Writing and the 2002 Scotsman Best of the Fringe Firsts Award,[3][4] and later went on to win the 2004 Best of The Adelaide Fringe Award. Following its London premiere at Riverside Studios,[5] Horse Country toured the UK, Australia, Canada and The Netherlands.[6][7][8][citation needed]
Later works
Hopkins' 2004 play screwmachine/eyecandy premiered at Assembly Rooms at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it was awarded a Scotsman Fringe First for New Writing.[9] The US premiere was presented at 59E59 Theaters[10] in New York in 2006. Also in 2006, Hopkins was commissioned by the Freie Universität Berlin to write and direct a site-specific work, The Insurgency, the German version of which was staged in the university's Philological Library.[11]
His 2009 play, The Extremists, commissioned by 7 Stages and directed by Walter D. Asmus, premiered in Berlin and Atlanta in 2010.[12] The UK premiere was presented at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. A 2018 production of the play was produced by Clark University and directed by Raymond Munro.
Hopkins also teaches workshops on playwriting and screenwriting.[13] His debut novel, Zone 23, was self-published by Hopkins (using the imprint Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant) in 2017.[14]
His writings have appeared in ColdType, The Unz Review, OffGuardian, CounterPunch and other publications.
Novels
- Zone 23, Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant, ISBN 978-3000555268
Plays
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- Horse Country, Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN 0413774074 (2004)
- screwmachine/eyecandy, Broadway Play Publishing Inc., ISBN 0881453382 (2007)
- The Extremists, Broadway Play Publishing Inc., ISBN 0881454419 (2010)
- The Insurgency, Bordercrossing Berlin, Verlagshaus J. Frank (2006)
- cunnilinguistics
- How To Entertain the Rich
- The Installation
- A Place Like This[15][16]
References
- ^ "Place Like This, A | Off-Off-Broadway | reviews, cast and info". TheaterMania.
- ^ "Program History/Artist Alumni".
- ^ "The Scottish Playground | The Village Voice". www.villagevoice.com. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
- ^ NOW Magazine [1]
- ^ WhatsOnStage [2]
- ^ http://www.theatretoursinternational.com/PastShows/PSHC.html
- ^ https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/arts/was-that-a-seal-i-saw-you-with-last-night/article1334300/
- ^ http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage2012/history.cfm
- ^ Adam, Karla (August 29, 2005). "Top Prizes at Edinburgh Fringe" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ Time Out New York [3]
- ^ "Bibliothek als Bühne". www.fu-berlin.de. September 21, 2006.
- ^ Creative Loafing (Atlanta) [4]
- ^ http://thereaderberlin.com/evening-courses/
- ^ "Consent Factory Publishing". Consent Factory, Inc. 17 September 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
- ^ http://www.offoffoff.com/theater/2000/placelikethis.php
- ^ http://www.offoffoff.com/theater/2000/placelikethis.php
External links
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- 1961 births
- 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- American male dramatists and playwrights
- Postmodern theatre
- Screenwriting instructors
- American male novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- Writers from Miami
- Novelists from Florida